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Cardinals Win Series vs Brewers! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up guys? Welcome to Three Up Three Down
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  live from YouTube. That's right, we are filming
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  horizontally sideways with Airpods for audio quality.
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  Shout out to Charlie Marlowe for giving me the opportunity to
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  take over his channel for an instant reaction to an
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  incredible series win over the Brewers.
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  As always to my loyal followers, you know we're going to do 3 ups
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  and three downs and as always we are starting with the downs, our
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  first down and this is an up and a down.
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  Paul Goldschmidt has been hot. Before tonight's game he was
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  basically up to league average in OPS again, which he has been
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  sitting like around 650 all season.
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  He is up to about 7:20 the last two weeks.
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  He's hitting 438, he's slugging 729.
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  He's got 2 homers, 8 double. SI think he had four opposite
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  field double S against the Yankees.
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  When he's going the other way, it means he's hitting.
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  The problem for the Cardinals is what are they going to do with
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  this? I know there was a report, I
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  think in July from the post Dispatch that they were going to
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  engage him on extensions and the fan base went crazy and then we
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  haven't heard much about it since and he didn't really hit
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  his way into an extension. Now it's September and now he's
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  been hitting for a legitimate stretch.
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  Obviously, there's still about a month left of the season.
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  I'm curious to see how the rest of the season goes.
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  The the thing that was interesting about Goldie most of
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  the year was that he he's still hitting the ball hard.
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  It's he's just whiffing like crazy.
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  And it just feels like he was guessing a ton up at the plate.
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  His approach it like he would just man, it felt like he took a
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  fastball to the middle for strike three once a game.
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  And it seems like he might just be getting a little luckier
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  lately. I don't know, but it's good to
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  see. But at the same time, can you
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  extend a guy who's who's 36 years old, who's clearly
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  declined the last two seasons? I mean, he obviously peaked in
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  22 with the MVP. But like pretty much since like
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  midpoint last year, it's gotten ugly.
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  I don't think they're going to extend him.
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  If they do, I hope it's a one year deal, maybe with like a
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  club option or something. I do think he's going to keep
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  playing. But yeah, my second down, JoJo
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  Romero tonight, just bad luck, bad outing, first pitch to the
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  inning. I mean, I hardly sat back down
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  on my seat. Homer tie game, not fun, but as
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  you guys know, they came out with a dub.
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  My third down. Let's talk Alec Burleson, who
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  had a great June and was was legitimately in the running for
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  player of the month in June, which is a legit honor.
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  Burley swings at everything I turn.
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  You know, the the top of the 10th tonight, he comes up first
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  two pitches out of the zone, whales out of whips, not whips,
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  fouls both off. The problem with Burley is he
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  thinks he can hit everything. He thinks everything is in his
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  wheelhouse. It's not Burley.
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  I I had to look up these super fancy stats on fake graphs.
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  Burley is 17th in baseball in his his rate at swinging pitches
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  out of the zone. So he swings in a ton of stuff
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  out of the zone that's of unqualified hitters that is 5%
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  higher than any other Cardinal. So one out of every 20 pitches
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  out of the zone, Burley is swinging that no other Cardinal
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  is swinging at It's and his his AB tonight in the top of the
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  10th was just so brutal because he had one job.
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  You have to get that runner over and he didn't.
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  He popped out, which he never strikes out, which I guess is a
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  positive, but man, he swings at everything.
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  And then there's a really, really frustrating approach to
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  watch. Let's get to the UPS.
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  I want to talk Mason win and I want to talk NL rookie of the
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  year. The NL rookie of the year is
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  really interesting to me. Win never gets mentioned period.
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  It's it's Imenaga. Over the course of the year,
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  it's mostly been a lot of Imenaga on the Cubs.
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  Yet skeens understandably, Marilyn, the Padres
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  understandably a little bit of cheerio noise for the Brewers,
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  who we saw play tonight. They walked him in the tent.
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  So clearly the Cardinals know what this guy is about.
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  I I I have a hard time understanding the difference
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  between B war and F war, baseball reference war and fan
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  grafts war and why they are so different.
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  So what I did was I took those four guys and I averaged their
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  two wars just to see what was up.
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  And 1st is skeins at 4.2 when is tied with Merrill at 3.9 and
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  then you have Cheerio at 3.6. I I just feel like Mason should
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  be getting a little more credit for what he is doing at
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  shortstop. Don't get me wrong, I understand
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  Merrill has never played center field, but I think you need to
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  watch win the throw tonight that he threw 97 miles an hour from
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  180 feet from the plate that no other shortstop is making that
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  throw in baseball. And and he did it.
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  He saved a run doing that. So I don't know.
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  You know, you want to get into the weeds a little bit.
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  Skeins has thrown 114 innings this year.
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  He's striking out 11 guys per nine.
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  I mean, you guys saw the outing he had against Saint Louis in
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  Pittsburgh. It was crazy.
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  They have no chance against him. I mean, he looks like Garrett
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  Cole. It's funny because I actually
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  was was curious how those two compared and and they've
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  actually had very similar rookie years.
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  Cole came up a little bit later, but they both throw in about 120
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  innings. Cole struck out fewer guys, but
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  it 2013 was just a weird ERA baseball.
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  We were still pitching to contact.
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  His ERA was about 3.2. Skeens is 2.13.
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  But that guy is really good to me, it's him.
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  I mean, and maybe that's just because I've seen him just
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  absolutely throttle the Cardinals twice this year.
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  But he throws hard, he strikes everybody out.
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  He's got a little bit of swag to him on the mound.
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  I think the other guys, I, I just don't think the other guys
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  really even have a case. In my opinion.
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  If you wanted to knock Skeens, it would be the innings, 114
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  innings. That's not a lot.
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  And I do think the Pirates are going to shut him down soon.
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  They're pretty much out of the race, so I'll be curious to see
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  how that impacts his candidacy. The Padres have obviously been
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  surging and Merrill has been hitting.
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  He's got 21 homers, he's hitting 291, slugging 493.
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  You know, but those three guys win.
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  Merrill and Churio offensively, they're all in the same
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  ballpark. Win hits for a little less
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  power, but he's still going to end up with 15 homers.
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  And then shortstop, you got to take that for a guy that's going
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  to give you plus defense, especially as he gets better.
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  You know, we forget Mason Wynn is really young.
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  He's like 21 or 22 years old. He was drafted in 2020.
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  So I I don't know, I think it's schemes to me.
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  He averages 6 innings a start. The guy just dominates.
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  The other three guys have been really good.
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  But I think what I'm getting at here is Wynn needs to be talked
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  about just a little bit more in these conversations.
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  I saw Buck Showalter, there was a list I think of either, it was
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  either the young shortstops or the young rookies in baseball
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  and who he would take. And finally someone talked about
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  Mason Wynn. Buck Showalter said he would
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  take the shortstop, that's Mason Wynn.
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  Mason Wynn is a great short stop.
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  He's athletic. So we'll we'll see how the
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  rookie of the year shakes out. I don't think Wynn will be a
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  finalist, but I don't think that's right.
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  I think he's top three. I think he should be in a
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  virturia. My second up is Victor Scott.
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  Been really happy with his progress.
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  He has been hitting 282, slugging 462 over the last two
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  weeks. He's got 3 steals.
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  He needs to play. I get that Siani gives you a lot
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  with the glove and they liked what he was doing offensively
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  before he got hurt, but like, I still think the wild card is in
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  reach, but realistically this team doesn't have a great chance
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  of hanging on to the wild card. With that said, they need to see
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  what they've got in the future. That's why you're seeing Burley
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  play every day. That's why you're seeing Walker
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  out there a lot. You know, Walker sat today, but
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  it was his first sit since he came back up.
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  Steven Matz is back. That's enough, obviously.
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  And then the bullpen these last two nights was nails.
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  Helsley last night, that might be his best outing of the year.
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  He came in and with the first two guys no chance.
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  And then Siani was like a weird turn of his wrist from ending
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  the game and then he comes back out, which he's only pitched 2
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  innings I think twice this year, both in Milwaukee.
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  He blew it in the first inning and then got the save in the
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  second inning. It's so impressive.
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  Fernandez tonight, Holy cow. I I mean, I I was we were
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  minutes from Fernandez being a down and he struck up a side the
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  night and they walked. Cheerio smartly got to Hoskins
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  and he got him on the slide piece slowing away.
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  That was really impressive. You need outings like that if
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  you're going to make the playoffs.
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  You just need like weird wins and I'm going to get to that.
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  But then, you know, Kent Ridge tonight nails 2 innings strong
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  picked up for JoJo in a big way. You know, and one thing I love
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  about baseball is these really weird wins, right?
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  So they win last night in extras.
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  And tonight, the three runs they score.
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  They got two guys walked in in the first inning and then the
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  third run was the the the extra runner in extra innings.
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  So it isn't even an earned run to the pitcher.
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  But you have to win games like that if you want to have a
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  chance. So going forward, they got this
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  Mariners this weekend, three against him.
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  They go Fetty Gibson, Michaelis, you got to sweep them.
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  Those guys can't score period, point blank.
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  You have to sweep them if you want a chance.
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  I think you lose this series and it it is probably over.
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  I don't want to pull the playoff odds up because those change so
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  much day-to-day. But yeah, guys, thank you guys,
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  as always for watching. Let me know what you think
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  below. And thanks again, Charlie, for
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  the opportunity to do this on YouTube sideways.